The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released its "2007-2012 Strategic Plan," which lays out goals and objectives to guide the agency in accomplishing its mission of fostering innovation and competitiveness by providing high quality and timely examination of patent and trademark applications. The plan builds upon the progress the USPTO made during the 2006 fiscal year.
The Peer-to-Patent project is mentioned on p. 13 of the 2007-2012 Strategic Plan:
We believe that partnership with stakeholders is crucial to defining, in a collaborative manner, solutions that will benefit the entire IP system. We also believe that such partnerships can offer keys to global IP solutions, as American inventors, entrepreneurs, and businesses have global issues to consider. As an example, in fiscal year 2006, the USPTO cooperated with a private sector-led group that chose to focus on so-called "peer review" as a possible means of improving the quality of patent application packages received by the USPTO. Private sector-initiated and -led efforts may provide the USPTO with important data and feedback that will help us, as stewards of the public trust, improve patent, trademark, and other IP systems for the benefit of all.
The full article is available at: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/strat2007/stratplan2007-2012.pdf.
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